Tears before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam
by Larry Engelmann
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Author: Larry EngelmannEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1990-08-30
ISBN: 0195053869
Number of pages: 408
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: Allowing a broad range of narrators to tell their truth
Summary: 5 Stars
Engelmann's Tears Before the Rain is a very well balanced oral history of the fall of South Vietnam. Airline attendants tell frightening stories of commercial jets being mobbed by desperate South Vietnamese trying to escape before the flood of Norht Vietnamese troops overtake Saigon. US Military officers, an ambassador, and CIA field chief give their perspectives from the American point of view. South Vietnamese army officers and soldiers give another account, one of betrayal by the United States. I can certainly understand the perspectives of the South Vietnamese. They feared for their lives and the lives of their families. The North Vietnamese forces controlled large portions of rural South Vietnam and they were ruthless to former South Vietnamese government officials and their families. This book is a very fast read, the narrative statements have been well edited into seemless paragraphs and any prompt questions by Engelmann have been removed. Our entry into the war was a terrible miscalculation. Our leaving the war was a human tragedy for all those South Vietnamese who had grown dependent on the United States. Engelmann's book puts a personal face on these tragic times. Well done and worth 5 stars.
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